The owner of a rural Virginia zoo accused of mistreating animals spent Christmas in jail, rather than reveal the location of ...

WASHINGTON — Leading zoos nationwide are creating online safaris by turning Webcams on their top attractions, including lion cubs, pandas, sharks and gorillas. The sites are a hit with kids, teachers ...

The presents are unwrapped, the cookies are crumbs, and that real Christmas tree will become a fire hazard soon enough. Most ...

Timothy, a hungry-for-love hippopotamus is trying his best to woo Fiona, another hippo at the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden in Ohio. The San Antonio Zoo in Texas shared an adorable letter from the ...

The Maryland Zoo in Baltimore offers so much more than exhibits. Located in the famous Druid Hill Park, the zoo is home to many species of mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians and also endangered ...

In 1980 I visited the zoo in a major U.S. city and found row after row of bare concrete boxes with jailhouse-style bars occupied by animals from around the world. The animals appeared to be in good ...

C'sar, who was 51 years old, came to the zoo in 1978, at just 4 years old. He was the zoo's first elephant and became an NC ...

GRAND RAPIDS, MI — John Ball Zoo will be transformed into an escape room for a series of evening events this summer, giving guests the opportunity to solve puzzles and unravel nature-related mysteries ...

Planet Zoo taught me two main things as I tried to wrangle its beautiful animals and satisfying tycoon economy: running a wildlife preserve can be a lot of fun, and I would be absolutely terrible at ...

Yielding to pressure from animal-rights groups, the San Francisco Zoo is giving up its last elephant, marking the first time in the facility’s 75-year history that it will be without at least one ...

Zoo Miami reopened to staff and visitors on Tuesday afternoon after a bomb threat earlier in the day forced law enforcement to evacuate the facility.